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New York City, United States (1993 – present)

宇多田ヒカル (Utada Hikaru), born January 19, 1983 in New York City, United States, also known by her fan-nickname “ヒッキー” (Hikki), is a third culture singer, composer, arranger, and record producer in Japan and the United States.

Utada Hikaru was born to Japanese parents who both had roots in the Japanese music industry; her father, Teruzane Utada, was a producer, while her mother, Junko Utada, was an singer (she performed under the stage name 藤圭子(Keiko Fuji)). Utada Hikaru has been recording since 1993. She made her first professional recording at the age of twelve, and recorded her first album, Precious, in 1996 under the pseudonym Cubic U. This album led to her career overseas. In a recent MTV interview (MTV’s You Hear It First, October 2004), Utada said: “Someone in Japan heard it, at a Japanese record company, and he said, ‘Oh, can’t you write in Japanese? You speak Japanese.’ And I didn’t want to say no, so I had to try it.”

Utada Hikaru was married to Kazuaki Kiriya, a photographer and movie director. He directed several of her music videos, including “FINAL DISTANCE”, “traveling”, “Hikari”/”光”, “Sakura Drops”, “Deep River”, “Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro”/”誰かの願いが叶うころ”, “You Make Me Want To Be A Man”, “Be My Last”, “Passion”, and “Keep Tryin’”. Also, “Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro”/”誰かの願いが叶うころ” was played during the credits of Kiriya’s directorial debut, Casshern. Their 4 1/2-year marriage was drawn to a close on March 2nd, 2007 as both Kazuaki Kiriya and Utada Hikaru filed divorce papers.
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  • MarcosSena

    i love keep tryin, and i don't know why the people don't like this.. [2] It's totally one of my all time favorites. (3)

    12 hours ago

  • jenny2

    i still want In The Flesh on DVD. :(

    yesterday afternoon

  • Kamikamikami

    Why this Hikki with guitar pic doesn't get downvoted to hell? There's a lot of better pics out there

    Wednesday evening

  • pblflp

    and we back to the boring and old main...

    Tuesday evening

  • amorphose

    I love all of Utada's albums. <3 The only songs that don't stand up to her others are Boku wa Kuma and Hymne a l'amour and one is child's song, the other a cover, so... haha I want her to come back to me so badly </3

    Monday evening

  • Valands

    I don't care about anything ♪

    Monday afternoon

  • Haeflin

    i love keep tryin, and i don't know why the people don't like this.. [2] It's totally one of my all time favorites.

    Monday morning

  • xLadyBathoryx

    Forever Utada <3

    Monday morning
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